STORMWATER BASIN MANAGEMENT, INSPECTIONS AND MAINTENANCE

Stormwater Management, Pond Maintenance, Basin Inspection & Stormwater Facility Repair

Remtech Engineers provides stormwater management, detention basin maintenance, stormwater facility inspections, erosion control services, and stormwater system design and construction for municipalities, industrial facilities, commercial properties, and residential developments. Our engineers and stormwater specialists help property owners maintain regulatory compliance, prevent flooding and erosion, and protect stormwater infrastructure through comprehensive inspection, maintenance, repair, and stormwater system design services. Proper maintenance of stormwater ponds, detention basins, retention ponds, underground detention systems, and storm drainage infrastructure is essential to prevent system failure, sediment accumulation, flooding, and environmental damage.

Stormwater Pond & Basin Maintenance Services

Remtech provides stormwater pond maintenance, detention basin cleaning, stormwater system repair, and sediment removal services designed to maintain hydraulic capacity and extend the life of stormwater infrastructure.

Stormwater Pond, Basin & Drainage System Inspections

Stormwater facilities must be inspected regularly to ensure structural stability, hydraulic capacity, and regulatory compliance with municipal stormwater management programs.Remtech Engineers provides professional stormwater facility inspections, engineering evaluations, and drone inspections for municipalities, commercial developments, industrial properties, and residential communities.

Stormwater Pond & Basin Design and Construction

Remtech Engineers provides stormwater facility design, construction, and stormwater best management practice (BMP) implementation for municipal, industrial, and commercial developments. Our stormwater engineers develop cost-effective stormwater control solutions designed to reduce runoff, prevent erosion, and meet local and state permitting requirements.

Stormwater Basin, Pond & Basin Due Diligence

Remtech's professional engineers and Level II Certified Design Professionals have over 30 years experience in erosion control and stormwater facility management, inspection, maintenance, design and construction.The goal of stormwater management is to minimize negative impacts of stormwater, erosion, and pollution loadings associated with municipal and industrial developments on site and downstream parties. Stormwater facilities are required to be inspected and maintained to ensure structural integrity and prevent excessive ponding, undesirable vegetation, erosion and sediment deposition, ground stability, clogging of inlet or outlet structures, and deterioration of pipes.

Counties and cities place the responsibility on private residential developments (through Home Owners Associations) and industrial property owners to finance maintenance and operational costs associated with stormwater facilities when building permits are issued. Problems with private stormwater facilities become evident when mandated city annual inspections are conducted (such as those required by the City of Atlanta).  As urban density and industrial sites expand the impermeable area and runoff volumes and velocities increase posing potential damage to stormwater management facilities.  

FAILURE OF REGIONAL STORMWATER FACILITY

One county has recently reported that it has over 400 stormwater facilities that are failing. An 150-acre watershed in this county drained through two historical farm ponds. Farm ponds are not designed for stormwater management but for lot specific use including fishing. Owners of a large ball-field complex dry detention basin was allowed to remain full of water for over a decade causing downstream ponds to have severe dam bank erosion and the residential pond dam to fail. Former lakefront properties now front a mud-hole, 14 ft eroded gullies through residential backyards and downstream flooding.  A forensic root cause investigation by Remtech Engineers determined that this failure was due to the County installing larger culverts under roads to relieve upstream flooding and permitting developments that allowed stormwater to flow through two farm ponds. Improper maintenance of the private ball-field's stormwater facility also contributed to the dam failure.  The county refused assistance to the private residential development's pond requiring owners to bear restoration costs.

How can this night mare be avoided?  First, real estate agents should protect potential buyers from owning dams on ponds or stormwater facilities since maintenance, drownings, and injuries legally falls on them. Secondly, ponds need to be inspected and maintained at least annually to prevent or minimize catastrophic failures.  Preventative measures that could have taken included installation of a concrete dam overflow structure, periodic removal of sediment deposits, and installation of a stormwater outfall.  

Legal actions against responsibility parties can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and may not result in restitution.  Private entities need to inspect and maintain stormwater facilities or obtain professional assistance from experienced companies like Remtech Engineers